Senior Partner, Financial Crime Assurance
About The Role
The Senior Partner, Financial Crime Assurance is responsible for designing, executing, and continually enhancing the Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) Assurance Framework. The role provides strategic oversight and independent assurance over the effectiveness of the bank’s AML/CTF, Sanctions, and Tax Transparency controls, ensuring alignment with regulatory obligations and industry best practices. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the Senior Partner ensures assurance activities deliver clear, risk‑based insights that strengthen the organisation’s financial crime risk management capabilities.
In this capacity, the Senior Partner leads the development and execution of the annual FCC Assurance Program, including risk‑based planning, resource allocation, and delivery of high‑impact assurance activities. This includes overseeing and conducting complex thematic reviews to identify systemic risks, validate the remediation and closure of significant FCC issues, and ensure control enhancements are sustainable and effective. The role also provides assurance over material change initiatives and facilitates independent reviews of the AML/CTF program and risk assessments, maintaining objectivity and integrity across all assurance activities.
The Senior Partner plays a critical role in stakeholder engagement and governance, building strong relationships with business units and senior executives to provide expert guidance and constructive challenge on FCC matters. The role synthesises and presents assurance outcomes to executive management and governance committees, clearly articulating key risks, trends, and recommendations. Through a strong focus on continuous improvement, the Senior Partner drives the evolution of assurance methodologies, tools, and reporting, ensuring best‑in‑class FCC assurance practices that meet or exceed regulatory and internal policy expectations.
About You
You bring multiple years of experience across financial crime compliance, assurance, or audit within banking or financial services, with a proven track record in designing, implementing, and managing Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) assurance frameworks and programs. You possess in‑depth knowledge of AML/CTF legislation, AUSTRAC guidance, and industry best practices across sanctions and tax transparency, and have led assurance reviews covering control design, testing, and effectiveness assessments to deliver clear, actionable outcomes.
You are a confident and credible senior stakeholder partner, with strong communication and influencing skills and an analytical mindset that enables you to identify, assess, and clearly articulate complex risks and control issues. Experience in leading teams and mentoring junior staff is highly valued, as are relevant tertiary qualifications and professional certifications such as CAMS, ICA, CA/CPA, or equivalent, reflecting your commitment to professional excellence and continuous learning.
About Us
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose – to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.
Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal – to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.
BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.
Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
Our perks
At BOQ Group, we are passionate about creating an exceptional work environment that nurtures both your professional and personal growth.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to enhance your well-being, provide financial security, and foster a sense of community and inclusion. Here are just some of the fantastic perks you can enjoy as part of our team:
Flexible working arrangement - Balance your work and personal life with ease.Discounted financial products - Enjoy exclusive rates on our financial services across the Group.Salary sacrificing options - Maximise your take-home pay with our salary packaging options.Paid parental leave with no minimum requirements - Spend quality time with your new family member without any worries.Purchase additional annual leave - Need more time off? You can buy extra leave days.Discounted private health insurance plan - Take care of your health with our special Assistance Program (EAP) - Access confidential support for personal and professional challenges for you and your familyAccess to employee network groups - Connect with peers through our First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers, and accessibility groups.Pride in Diversity membership: We are proud members of Pride in Diversity and actively participate in the Australian Workplace Equality Index.
We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. Join us and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and community!
How To Apply
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BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.
We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.
Please no agency applications.